[Yossarian]

I never believed the AI hype for a second

Between "Generative AI" models, and the multiple-orders-of-magnitude improvement Machine Learning (ML) chips are making every few years, the creative industries are going to take a hit.

Just off the top of my head:

• creative jobs at risk: Graphic design, writing of many types, non-architecture-level code writing, voice actors, moving soon to apparel design, home and building architecture, etc.
• other jobs at risk: translators, grocery cashiers, any kind of security job where you just watch a monitor, doctors who review medical imagery looking for issues;
• jobs at risk when robots - like from Boston Dynamics - get to market: grocery store stockers, truck unloaders, crop pickers, assembly-line workers.

I'm at a chip design conference (Hot Chips) this very second. The computational power of Machine Learning chips are increasing at a staggering rate.

The speedup of CPUs from generation to generation? Not much - 10-15%. The speedup of Machine Learning? 5-8X per generation.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes, but faster computing, no matter how good, isn’t sentience.

And THAT’s what people think AI is. That’s how the media portray it. That’s nonsense.

No one can even explain our own sentience, and if we truly are sentient.